Chimpanzees news, articles and information:

4/29/2015 2:47:44 PM - The most historic advancement for animal rights in the US emerged when New York State Judge Barbara Jaffe granted a writ of habeas corpus for two chimps, Hercules and Leo. The two chimps have been held captive for biomedical laboratory research at Stony Brook University in New York. Now the animals...

3/26/2014 - There are two broad categories of behavior that, in humans, may be labeled as "war." The first and most familiar to us are large-scale battles between two or more opposing forces. Similar behavior is seen in many species of ants and other social insects, in which battles may take place between tens...

12/13/2013 - A Florida-based non-profit group has filed a lawsuit seeking legal personhood for a chimpanzee named Tommy that is currently being detained in a cage in Fulton County, New York. The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) maintains that chimpanzees like Tommy possess unique cognitive abilities that closely match...

1/16/2012 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced in December 2011 that it will apply more stringent standards limiting government-funded experiments on chimpanzees. The announcement came after new recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), concluding that studies involving humans closest...

7/18/2011 - The question of whether chimpanzees and other primates should be used for biomedical research is an issue that has recently been reinvigorated thanks to 186 chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico who are waiting for their verdict of either life in a grassy sanctuary or a life of torture...

6/10/2011 - Members of the Hominidae family chimpanzees are the closest living relatives to human beings and like us, they have been found to experience emotions and retain memories. With that in mind, a team from the Hayashibara Great Ape Research Institute in Okayama, Japan has evidence to prove that we have...

7/11/2008 - Juvenile chimpanzees beat adult humans in two different short-term memory tests, according to a study conducted by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan and published in the journal Current Biology.
The research was carried out on three five-year-old chimpanzees that had been taught the order...